Let's have a thread for non-game music that sounds like it came straight from some retro game (if that's allowed). https://youtu.be/D9CEpxQq0ls?si=b35650YzlLCUxrOL —sounds exactly like Earthboundhttps://youtu.be/ELJTT8AUPTk?si=IbYLHl0l7bpPnb0z —Konami shmup core
The only non game music i listen to is music that I can picture being used in a game. Everything else bores/disgusts me.
>>12309619https://youtu.be/2Ds9RGfNR3E?si=BLliMOLMll_pRJ_M —late 90s/00s dungeon music
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>>12309619Just post the YMO discography
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lOW9aDaFCtkSome amiga gamehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7evCecU_-5gMario kart
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-x7JLXsZk-w
Jarre is probably borderline cheating:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xFGVI0_UiNs
>>12309619https://youtu.be/YRhXTS9VToE?si=VyRv-_ZNQNDB3Vzp —Sounds like a Castlevania arranged track.
>>12309619id post my music but im shy.
>>12309619>sounds like it came straight from some retro gameAre we talking about stuff that inspired vgm composers? Many of them did and have composed based of genres and artists that they like; Koji Kondo, Koichi Namiki and many others really like J-fusion, Yuzo Koshiro loved electronic music from his contemporary clubbing scene, some of the Namco Sound Team were so into YMO that they formed a parody band... even Tim Follin said 'fuck it' and put Starsky and Hutch's main theme note for note in a contest game no one gave a fuck about:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hUu6E-5lPTw
>>12309619Those are pretty top tier picks OP. The Brian Eno thing definitely sounds like Earthbound. It also sounds like a Weather Report-lite composition but there isn’t anything I can think of off the top of my head that Weather report has that is straight up earth bound. One of the EB themes sounds straight up like something from steely Dan. One of the battle themes little chord pattern things. I love return to forever but never got much into chick’s electric band era that’s pretty dope. Sick logo too. I think a lot of stuff from Weather Report’s Mr Gone (1978) inspired a lot game composers. Here below River People that opening synth poly-portamento sound is line exactly the battle start sound from Earthbound. And then the bass ostinato clearly influenced the Mario underground themehttps://youtu.be/2DuePlxXfAM?si=KBAaofPtBme0wohdAlso this one from the same album called “the elders” always felt to me like could be a good cave music thing. Or some other kind of mysterious settings music. https://youtu.be/iKTvkCaFVZ4?si=ygSRkCkq2JdO6sZuKoji Kondo especially his stuff with organ seems inspired by Emerson Lake and Palmer and Deep purple. The boss theme for ff7 has some direct riffs from “Child in Time” particularly the Hammond organ solo section. Sonic 3 stuff definitely influenced by Chuck brown and Washington DC gogo stuff, even the supposedly non-MJ tracks hint at those early 90s RnB styles he was incorporating, but more DC gogo and less New Jack Swing
>>12309619https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xLcFC0rFtgYhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZTj7UqKopHY
I forgot to upload the cover art for my post got Weather Report - Mr Gone
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PRyqCSRMH-oStraight up the kind of music in Wild Woody or some obscure 3DO game.
>>12309619https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wuQNhDX1p_wi swear some of these NFL primetime (ESPN football highlights show from the 90s/00s) themes were using the Mega Man X soundfont
>>12310738Really has that synth demo before it gets converted to hardware sound.https://youtu.be/0LSk9KX0KuQ?t=65
>>12310643https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zDNKunhqUmQcompare tohttps://youtu.be/Q4VkYR4Zj5w?si=UmabOz5sS-cHmQj6&t=269
https://youtu.be/jMQZlPAuuXM?si=dwLhBLpXNIzfjA3Z
>>12309619https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=djV11Xbc914
Great thread
Sonic Chaos Proto (June 30th, 1993) - Sleeping Egg BETA Theme https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=53NjbejPMAchttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rnOzhAOZGFMThe System - I'm About You https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EYt1znvJbRU
>>12310754Haha shit that’s spot on. I think deep purple was pretty popular in Japan. They did their big live album there in the early 70s. There’s this obscure pc engine/turbo graphix game called Zero Yon Champ (quarter mile drag racing) that when you are working at the arcade the music sounds like a direct combo of the song Burn combined with Smoke on the water.
>>12309679>>12309703>>12310675>>12310702>>12310738Nice. I wonder what it is with Japan and smooth jazz. They just love it>>12310584Castlevania if Dracula's castle was in Miami>>12310686Tekken 2 vibes
>>12310601bitch you're anonymous you coulda just posted it any nobody would know it was you
Posting some more, I don't have any "spot on" picks left though https://youtu.be/qRu-1uufm8Q?si=FeDUUcPpTdfYAREh —bmups, 90s stylehttps://youtu.be/Hr9GJUcP1-g?si=wjN-8yX9Zd0gJyuf —bmups, 80s style
How has nobody posted Plantasia?https://youtu.be/-x7JLXsZk-wAny confirmation on this being the source for Zelda's Lullaby?
>>12311086See >>12309695
>>12309619Future Sounds of London must've had a big influence on Yuzo Koshiro. Check out this comparison:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uXuWEAQWtxEhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2RFJYF-C0FU
>>12309672>>12309659This. All japanese retro game music comes from YMO, who got it from Kraftwerk
>>12310643most chiptune composers and people trying to make "retro" sounding music completely neglect to research the actual inspirations of the famous VGM compositions. it's a mixture of things, after the war jazz/bigband caught on in japan pretty heavily and my theory is that people who were musically educated there were trained on jazz standards. (count basie is a favorite of japanese from what I can gather) light music was also a thing. eventually you had jazz fusion bands like casiopea and t-square who took inspiration from all these sources (and western groups too like shakatak and mezzoforte, shakatak was popular in japan especially) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fm8uHT-BJP4https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ukaOjyrVDMIhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RrpjWM8JT7khttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VHtI1wcgG4Ahttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CPVP2QFIPjMhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BoU4XcxGWfkhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PjXP6KRED_Uhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rh35DsEmCwQhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iorB1z6QmOMhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LdL2y0IaNNUhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UmHXawTg3UQhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MZ666lQ7j0Ein the 90s michael jackson/ new jack swing was also a big deal in japan which also influenced their musical stylings (this is a bit more of a reach) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tGySW4HMdRE(some VGM examples https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QCCskzjH61o https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wab8OPDcCLQ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tgUixnxPl9w)
>>12310695based mr gone enjoyer
Boy do I have a lot https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QKhmJA_DBwc -- Songwriting similar to Sigma Stage 1 from Mega Man X1https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vLDRSoDGLqY -- Zero's Theme X1https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cHqyAUhhmiU -- Little Planet in Sonic CDhttps://youtu.be/X1rhndAGt8s?si=DWNmyGbiOoOuarqg -- Sonic Adventure Corehttps://youtu.be/yu9ltkCHoLU?si=287cEKS22XjhvKsj -- Sometimes I'm convinced that Mega Man 2 is just a surf album in 8-bit formhttps://youtu.be/vog_tJcJRGI?si=LbGjhNV-QHKzf80x -- Mainly for the Bassline, that is straight out of Sonic 3K
>>12309619https://youtu.be/T7rtr-lp8yg?si=chnFARHVcQ0hKNev —Metroid Prime vibes.
>>12313057more Metroid Primehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XQQpa-djlFkhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qc76eo5ETbw
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X2LTL8KgKv8
How about shameless plagiarism?:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rWXGCKnT52Ehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RihCkopGGQs
>>12313094sunglasses are rad
>>12309619https://youtu.be/hV0D5ri9JHc?si=AwZA4QaPxD_5qL3H —Outrun vibes
>>12309619https://buriedtreasure.bandcamp.com/track/blue-star-wonderer
I was expecting someone to post the most obvious one.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rtIQPmceTLQ
>>12313057>>12313085https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5auABfF2iYEAutechre were approached by Retro to do the soundtrack but Nintendo said no. I'd say there's still some of their dna in the soundtrack like the more beat-heavy Prime tracks that definitely took some cues from Anvil Vapre
>>12309619Obligatoryhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yUSheVIni7U
>>12309619It’s almost like this extremely popular album was influential to video game composers. Idiot.
>>12311071smooth jazz? you wot mate?? this aint smooth jazz its jazz-fusion. totally different. Weather Report was like cutting edge music. Casiopeia sounds kinda heading towards "smooth/lounge" styles but is still firmly Japanese Jazz Fusion
>>12313249reminds me of a Herb Alpert instrumental version of an Earth Wind and Fire songhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xspAsRR1sTEgotta love that fender Rhodes piano
>>12313249https://youtu.be/F5mrYyFxH70?si=ekJGjM7Q6BQfb2dm
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q6W6wFXYJJI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yPfH__GMzuM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F9okQdRuHWs
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yTUBeR2HpA8
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KRZF28NJvCg
HARD TIMEShttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H2OWC5Hosv8
cool thread, will make a playlist out of this one>https://youtu.be/iQs07Sofu8I?si=eHym72X14O59xwlw>https://youtu.be/7i5lwRjLd_4?si=SOC17A82JB92RyfM>https://youtu.be/jvqKL3NbloM?si=6dSw2LnDO5pVfzr9>https://youtu.be/sIeySziOAaA?si=87nGDP6RMNxyWLCD>https://youtu.be/nIfjiRxbXns?si=FQV-Q9BoCx4OvaxX>https://youtu.be/lg1Rv4FNobk?si=Ce0WZsV3ehNj7POB>https://youtu.be/q7-U5GkpEEo?si=TNY2S-U4cMBuZsUn>https://youtu.be/Tr0ztaFxB9E?si=6Qwmx7-gRhDdjxg9
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=04sdCTF7r9M
>>12309619https://youtube.com/watch?v=jGVQlgjVHLw
YMO are no doubt highly influential and were blatantly ripped off at times but stop acting like they invented video game music and that EVERY SINGLE FUCKING VIDEO GAME COMPOSER listened to nothing but them.It's really tiresome and disingenuous.
>>12316727see my post >>12311281
>>12317798I read your post at least
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NDUh5UY4LJI
>>12317798I saw your post, it's shit.
